Samsung patents method for phones to set up new Wi-Fi devices
Samsung has been granted a patent for a method that allows an electronic device to act as a configurator for a new Wi-Fi access point. The device receives a request from the new hardware, responds with specific channel information, and then scans to establish a connection. Once the setup is complete, the device switches roles to connect to the newly configured network.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication module and a processor functionally connected to the communication module. The processor can be configured to receive, from an external electronic device, through a communication module, a configuration request frame including identification information for identifying a registrant access point (AP), in order to configure the external electronic device as the registrant AP, transmit, to the external electronic device, through the communication module, a configuration response frame including first channel information for indicating a channel used by the electronic device in the scanning of the external electronic device, based on the configuration request frame, acquire connection information about the external electronic device by performing scanning through the communication module, based on the first channel information and the identification information, and connect to the external electronic device through the communication module based on the connection information about the external electronic device.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device comprising: a communication circuitry; memory, comprising one or more storage media, storing instructions; and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the communication circuitry and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to: receive, from an external electronic device through the communication circuitry, a configuration request frame comprising identification information identifying an enrollee access point (AP) to configure the external electronic device as the enrollee AP, transmit, to the external electronic device through the communication circuitry, a configuration response frame comprising first channel information indicating a channel used in scanning the external electronic device by the electronic device, based on the configuration request frame, acquire connection information of the external electronic device by performing scanning through the communication circuitry, based on the first channel information and the identification information, and connect to the external electronic device through the communication circuitry, based on the connection information of the external electronic device, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, further cause the electronic device to configure the enrollee AP while operating as a device provisioning protocol (DPP) configurator, and subsequently access the enrollee AP by operating as an enrollee terminal (STA) when the configuration of the enrollee AP is completed.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- Electronic device for device-provisioning in wireless network, and operating method therefor
- Patent number
- US12745270B2
- Application number
- 18482577
- Filed
- Oct 6, 2023
- Granted
- Sep 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 9
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04W 72/40 Electricity & electronicsH04W 8/005 Electricity & electronicsH04W 48/16 Electricity & electronicsH04W 84/12 Electricity & electronicsMore from Samsung in Networks & wireless
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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